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More than likely the bloke on the loading shovel hasn’t shaken his bucket between products.That must have been dug from the wrong heap or there are holes in their screens or something?! I've never seen anything like that except in an aggregate pile!
Bit of freeze and thaw mind and it will all be shattered to bits I suspect.
That must have been dug from the wrong heap or there are holes in their screens or something?! I've never seen anything like that except in an aggregate pile!
Bit of freeze and thaw mind and it will all be shattered to bits I suspect.
Eeerrrrr...... no. I think if you came back in a few centuries that might be the case, but it’s not been a good investment for now.
If what you say is true how would any limestone buildings still be standing?
Its a 120mile Haul you know !!! there is none in northumberland !!! apart from Thompsons who bring it in from outside the county
Plus its the good lime none of that sub standard stuff & it has to be Calcium end of
They do all my soil testing via there Soilquest now rebranded Rhiza brand.
which part cost effective?Topic for separate thread possibly.....but do you find that cost effective?
I only ask because I soil sample manually every few years- £10 a sample or so (one sample per field). I don't see the benefit in variable rate etc etc. as things stand so a manual sample works for me, albeit take a day or so total to walk the fields and take the samples to the lab.
I fully accept I could be missing something though.
Where do Thompson's import it from?Its a 120mile Haul you know !!! there is none in northumberland !!! apart from Thompsons who bring it in from outside the county
Plus its the good lime none of that sub standard stuff & it has to be Calcium end of
They do all my soil testing via there Soilquest now rebranded Rhiza brand.
I think vr saves you more with lime than pand kwhich part cost effective?
The whole very detailed soil scanned zones then vari rate mapped for P&K & Lime
crops are deffo more even so far yeah.
Its going where it needs too go
No Wastage or over spreading
Is it cost effective ? its no dearer than how we used to do it IE blanket applying 250/300kg of 0:24:24 or 0:20:30 on every acre & that wasnt a cheap hobby neither.
The Lime job is far more accurate with this system tho.
I think its right for both personallyI think vr saves you more with lime than pand k
But generally you need more of one than the other.ive no long since ordered my TSP & MOP tonnage for the year & one is less than the other but its no more than a flat rate of a mixed product.
So i agree your not saving much money but its going where it should be
Thats my experience with it all so far anyways.
Yeah correct !!! not much mind but a few more tons of TSP in my case !But generally you need more of one than the other.
Agree I tend where it yields more it needs feeding moreive no long since ordered my TSP & MOP tonnage for the year & one is less than the other but its no more than a flat rate of a mixed product.
So i agree your not saving much money but its going where it should be
Thats my experience with it all so far anyways.
Neighbour who does all my combining & does none of this & he has said this year & past years my crops are far more even than his, he doesn't use any bagged P&K tho whatsoever.Agree I tend where it yields more it needs feeding more
i also do vra on all 3
Decent calcium lime out of Marsden quarry at South Shields.Its a 120mile Haul you know !!! there is none in northumberland !!! apart from Thompsons who bring it in from outside the county
Plus its the good lime none of that sub standard stuff & it has to be Calcium end of
They do all my soil testing via there Soilquest now rebranded Rhiza brand.
Ive heard diff about Lime from there soz...Decent calcium lime out of Marsden quarry at South Shields.
Ross Corbett from Otterburn delivers & spreads